The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 38, 1674-1683: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 38, 1674-1683: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources
[122] The English factory at Fort St. George, the chief citadel of
Madras. Fort St. George was established in 1639, a piece of land
having been obtained from the rajah of Chandgherry; it commands the
Black Town and the Roads, and may be considered the nucleus of the
city. It was held by the French during the years 1744-49.
[123] This was the galleon "San Telmo;" it arrived safely at Manila.
[124] Evidently the island of Leyte which fits Dampier's description
of the island of St. John (see post).
[125] Magalhães was killed, not in Luzon, but on the island of Mactan.
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